Richard Wright (1908–60) was a novelist and short-story writer who inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II. From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Wright was a dominant voice laying bare the…
Richard Wright was an African American writer who gave a voice to the voiceless. He was the first commercially successful black novelist and unveiled the terrors of the ghetto. One of Wright's most famous works, Native Son, protested the…